Quotes About Self-awareness

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist

separates his behavior from his identity, and that ability is what ultimately allows people to live with behavior they now condemn.

Being alone gave me a chance to process what my senses took in without having to factor in other people's opinions.

Over time, alcohol seeps into your soul. It changes you—what you care about, what you are capable of. It rots you from the inside. It can alienate you from love itself.

Better to be by yourself than with someone unsuitable.

Wer der Norm entspricht, kann dem Irrturm erliegen, dass es sie nicht gibt. Wer der Mehrheit ähnelt, kann dem Irrturm erliegen, dass die Ebenbildlichkeit mit der die Norm setzenden Mehrheit keine Rolle spielt. Wer der Norm entspricht, dem oder der fällt oft nicht auf, wie sie anderer ausgrenzt oder degradiert. Wer der Norm entspricht, kann sich oft ihre Wirkung nicht vorstellen, weil die eigene Akzeptanz als selbstverständlich angenommen wird.

If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.

like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

When I get nasty like that, it's like I'm standing outside of myself and I know I'm being terrible and irrational but there's nothing I can do about it.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want." "You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

You didn't tie your shoelaces and you blamed the world when you tripped.

He doesn't hate me. He hates himself. If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.

You know what, kid? You need to get over yourself. You work in a bookstore. You don't make the books. You don't write the books and if you were any good at reading the books, you probably wouldn't work in a bookstore. So wipe that judgmental look off your face and tell me to have a nice day.

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are...if people could handle their self-loathing m customer service would be smoother

That's a cheat,' I say. 'You can't go through life blaming your childhood for the way you are as an adult.

You don't get to be anything slash anything.

My shrink would say that I'm not respecting boundaries

You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd be.

When I get nasty like that, it's like I'm standing outside of myself and I know I'm being terrible and irrational but there's nothing I can do about it. I have serious PMS issues sometimes.

Drinking alone is what you do when you can't stand the feeling of living in your own skin. Boswell describes this in his Life of Johnson: "I drink alone," Johnson explains, "to get rid of myself, to send myself away. Wine makes a man better pleased with himself.

is that in some deep and important personal respects you stop growing when you start drinking alcoholically. The drink stunts you, prevents you from walking through the kinds of fearful life experiences that bring you from point A to point B on the maturity scale.

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

I have since become convinced that when we define ourselves by our wounds, we burden and lose our physical and spiritual energy and open ourselves to the risk of illness.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.